Understanding morbidity pattern and associated expenditure is essential for implementation of appropriate healthcare and social security measures for the elderly.
The size of the effect varies depending on the morbidity pattern, and on how fast mortality and morbidity are both changing.
Indeed, an underlying morbidity pattern as stable as that seen in Fig. 7 would predict improvements in the marginal chronological age pattern of self-reported health if the lifespan distribution were to shift to higher ages.
The cost of treatment of morbidity pattern in <5 year old children based on the HMIS data of the year of 2007 data source (i) outlined above) was compared to that of the morbidity pattern observed in the IPTi study cohort (data source (iii) outlined above).
Namely, five mice infected with 0.1×LD50 LVS treated with rat IgG2a isotype control did not succumb to the infection and exhibited a morbidity pattern similar to that of the PBS-treated mice (data not shown).
It is interesting to note that BAV was isolated from a naturally infected rodent and one could propose that its morbidity pattern could be a consequence of the adaptation of BAV to rodents [11], but more studies involving these strains are necessary to elucidate that.
